Starting with chain 2 and single crochet
This is the second tutorial in my ‘Back to Basics’ series.
If you are unsure how to start with a slip knot - go see the first tutorial here. This tutorial on how to start making a circle, which is usually how you would start off an amigurumi head.
Start off with a simple slip knot. After the first yarn over and pulling through the loop on the hook, you should have one foundation chain.
Continue step 2 to get a chain of 2. (If you continue on doing step 2 a few more rounds, you will get a foundation chain.) But for the purposes of this tutorial which is to start the round, you will just end at a chain of 2.
In step 4, you will be inserting the hook into the 1st chain you made earlier in step 2 above.
After yarn over in step 5, pull yarn through the 1st chain, you will end up with 2 loops on the hook.
Steps 4-8 are essentially the steps for making a single crochet. This will also be covered again in a later tutorial.
Repeat doing single crochet into the same chain, for a total of 5 times (sc5). You can start to see a circle forming. The downside to this method is that you will end up with a small gap in the centre of the circle.
On the other hand, if you use the magic ring method (which I do, often), you will be able to pull the gap closed in the centre. This will be covered in the next tutorial.
